Copenhagen HAD produced a binding agreement. Is there any way the US would have endorsed it? Why should China commit if the US will never, ever commit? Who has more to prove?

9:53 pm March 16, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Let's face it, we know 100% sure, without Congress approval Obama did not have the power to sigh any binding agreement before he even left for Copenhagen, so everyone knew the outcome before the meeting even started. WSJ is doing well following political orders to continue the blame-China rhetoric but most people who cares about climate change at all have known exactly what happened for month.

10:25 pm March 16, 2010

Someone wrote:

I actually finished listening all the press conference with extreme care-fullness, Did this Shai Oster actually pay any attention what happened in Copenhagen conference? I doubt it!!! I was still wondering why Premier Wen didn't get notified to attend that conference.
Let's assume U.K.’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also were not informed of this meeting, what would happen?
Please think about it in Wen's shoes!!

10:34 pm March 16, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

It's all head games. The Chinese are much too smart, and important, and concerned about "face" to be left out of a meeting. This "snub" was them sending a message, that the (then) mega-popular new US president was not too hot to be taken down a peg.

10:40 pm March 16, 2010

Maitreya Bhakal wrote:

So in effect what the article is saying is that when foreign leaders snub Chinese leaders, then its fine; but when China does the same to foreign leaders, then its not!!
Not to mention the fact that Obama barged in uninvited at the meeting of leaders from India, China, SA and Brazil.

BTW, Wen Jiabao is certainly not the 'leader' of China as the article states. He is the PM, the President Hu Jintao is the actual leader. At best Wen can be called 'one of the leaders'.

No, the article does not say that snubbing Chinese "leaders" is all right, Maitreya - though as a perennial West-basher you might be expected to assert as much.

11:21 pm March 16, 2010

Keith Williams wrote:

Forget Copenhagen, I want to know why the develop nations haven't kept the promises of Kyoto?

12:00 am March 17, 2010

clear to me wrote:

it is quite clear to me what had happened. it is not really hard to figured it out as long as you can read english, nothing more, nothing challenged, nothing complexed. it is just english, plain.

12:02 am March 17, 2010

not only you wrote:

Wondering why WJS reporters are so ret...

2:38 am March 17, 2010

Maitreya Bhakal wrote:

@(Anonymous)
The article doesn't say that directly, but it is clear from the article's general tone.
I've said that the article says that in effect, meaning, reading between the lines, that is the purview of the article.

Also the article itself is ambiguous. It makes statements like: The upshot was he didn’t go because he hadn’t been invited. While his staff was figuring out what was up, he sent a deputy just in case. and then goes on to say, "he really didn’t answer the question. " and "didn’t really clear the air over what happened in December" and that Wen "blew more smoke".
The article has hardly paid any attention to the accusation that Obama barged in uninvited at the meeting of leaders from India, China, SA and Brazil, as I said earlier.

In short, the article only tells half-truths. Not to mention the 'leader' mistake.

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